Overview

• HIBP’s Troy Hunt reports the dataset contains roughly 1.1 million email addresses along with names, gender, birth dates, phone numbers and postal addresses.
• Allianz dates the breach to July 16 and says attackers used social engineering to access a customer database affecting most customers, financial professionals and selected employees.
• Hunt links the incident to a pattern of current attacks targeting Salesforce.
• The company has notified U.S. authorities and is cooperating with the FBI, and it has not said whether a ransom was demanded.
• Allianz Life lists 1.4 million U.S. customers, a figure it has not reconciled with the 1.1 million exposed records.